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[Pawel Stolowski <1456253@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The setting for "Dash Search" to choose between "Phone only" and "Phone
and Internet" should be removed. This setting made sense in Unity 7, but
it's not really handled by the new scopes framework and moreover, it
doesn't really make sense in Unity8 which doesn't have "search
everything" Home screen; user now has full control over what scopes are
searched (by adding them to favorites or enabling child scopes via
settings of aggregator scopes).

In other words, the current function of "Dash Search" setting is pretty
much broken (only smartscopesproxy honors it, 3rd party or local scopes
ignore it). This leads to user confusion and a bunch of bug reports such
as https://bugs.launchpad.net/today-scope/+bug/1440576

** Affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Pawel Stolowski (stolowski)
         Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Pawel Stolowski (stolowski)

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Title:
  [security/privacy] Dash search setting should be removed

Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The setting for "Dash Search" to choose between "Phone only" and
  "Phone and Internet" should be removed. This setting made sense in
  Unity 7, but it's not really handled by the new scopes framework and
  moreover, it doesn't really make sense in Unity8 which doesn't have
  "search everything" Home screen; user now has full control over what
  scopes are searched (by adding them to favorites or enabling child
  scopes via settings of aggregator scopes).

  In other words, the current function of "Dash Search" setting is
  pretty much broken (only smartscopesproxy honors it, 3rd party or
  local scopes ignore it). This leads to user confusion and a bunch of
  bug reports such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/today-
  scope/+bug/1440576

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